Habitus in Habitat I- Emotion and Motion Emotion and Motion

Sabine Flach holds a PhD in Art History and works as Head of the Department WissensKünste (Art of Knowledge and Knowledge of Art) at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin. Her current work focuses on knowledge of the arts, embodiment and image act, emotion and motion, other sides of cognition, aesthesis and mediality, mental images and «Einbildungskraft», image and body, body and gestures. She has also developed the project «Emotion and Motion» at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung.
Daniel Margulies holds a PhD in Psychology and works in neuroscience research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and the Mind and Brain Institute in Berlin. His current works focuses on delineating neuroanatomy based on patterns of connectivity.
Jan Söffner holds a PhD in Romance Philology from Cologne University and works in comparative literature for the project «Emotion and Motion» at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung. His current work focuses on embodiment, mimesis and metaphors as related to emotions in literature.